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Barrack Board Explains Stance on Union
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SELAH MAYA ZIGHELBOIM | JE STAFF
IN AN EMAIL blast sent on
March 13, George Gordon,
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew
Academy board president,
sent a letter that offered more
detail about the board’s con-
troversial December decision
to withdraw recognition from
the teachers union.

In the letter, Gordon said
the decision was intended
to provide the school with
more flexibility.

“First, to ensure that the
school continues to thrive in
this environment, we need to
maximize our ability to be
nimble, to implement inno-
vative programming, and to
evolve,” Gordon said.

“Second, it is critical that we
have a truly unified commu-
nity of educators that shares a
singular focus on our mutual
goals of achieving excellence in
an academic program infused
with Jewish values. We envi-
sion a school environment
that further unifies all of our
educators and enhances their
ability to work in unison to
meet the needs of our evolving,
Jewishly-diverse community.”
Gordon emphasized that
there was no intention to
decrease teachers’ salaries
or benefits, a point he drove
home by announcing that all
teachers will receive salary
increases for the 2019-2020
academic year. He said that the
board also plans to increase
salaries for the 2020-’21 and
2021-’22 academic years, that
See Barrack, Page 25
Alumni and families stood outside the school on March 18 to show their support for the teachers union.

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